Altarum Institute received an award of $9.4 million from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to reduce the burden of childhood dental disease in Michigan. The award is focused on children aged 0–17 enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Combined, these two insurance programs cover nearly half of Michigan’s children.
Altarum, in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Delta Dental of Michigan, and the Michigan Department of Community Health will work together to improve the oral health of more than 1 million children across the state.
Building on a growing portfolio of efforts to improve care appropriateness, this 3-year project will better target preventive services to high-risk children, improve the referral pathways between primary care and dentistry, and put in place a statewide dental quality monitoring program using recently validated American Dental Association measures.
